I'm looking forward for the arch/antergos benchmarks. By they way many people say that arch is faster, and what I have seen is that debian distros distribute many binaries with debugging symbols while arch binaries are stripped from those.
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As a Arch user, this is what I'd do for benchmarks:
- Install Arch once and keep it up to date.
- Set up fstab to use UUIDs.
- Set up NetworkManager.
Now every time I needed to run a benchmark on a new system, I'd:
- Move the drive (or an image of it) to each new machine to benchmark.
- Set up BIOS/EFI to boot from the Arch drive.
- Boot using the fallback kernel.
- Log-in, run sudo mkinitcpio -p linux
- Reboot, choose the default kernel.
- Run benchmarks.
No need to install, and it probably is faster to setup than installing any distro.
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Originally posted by blackout23 View PostFTFY.
1) gdisk/fdisk
2) mkfs.ext4
4) mnt /dev/sda1 /mnt
Originally posted by blackout23 View Post3) pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel gnome nvidia syslinux
4) genfstab
5) arch-chroot
6) syslinux-install_update
7) create user
8) touch 4 config files for localization, hostname, time, bootmanager config
Originally posted by blackout23 View Post9) Enable NetworkManager and GDM
10) Done.
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Originally posted by Laser View PostImplying you don't use any advanced disk setup, i.e. RAID or LVM2
Touching them is not enough in most cases, you actually have to put in some data. touch just creates empty files.
Well, now you have an english version of GNOME running. So what do you do next? You can surf the web. Want to play an MP3? Well, good luck without appropriate gstreamer plugins. Visit a website that uses flash? Doesn't work. Watch a video? Well, it works if you're lucky, but you are lacking VDPAU so no hardware acceleration for you, buddy. I also always recommend something for synchronizing your clock to an NTP server. And if you have a notebook, you might possibly want to install even more stuff, like bluez, bumblebee, ModemManager, you name it, and Arch offers no way to easily install all that in a way that can be described as non-basic. I like Arch and there is not a single machine I own that can but doesn't run Arch, but the I regard the claim that it can be installed in 10 minutes (even 30 minutes) as not true if you mean any more than "create a machine that provides some form of login". I don't run Arch because it is installed quickly, but because it is highly flexible - granted, Gentoo is better in that regard -, offers very good and very few distro-specific tools (like pacman), has cutting-edge software in its repositories, a competent community, it's rolling release and well-designed. I don't need Arch to be installed fast because I do it once per machine. If you actually want to install it multiple times in the same environment, the tools to automate it are all there.Last edited by blackout23; 24 June 2014, 01:20 PM.
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Originally posted by blackout23 View PostI didn't mean the command touch. I meant edit/modify.Originally posted by blackout23 View PostMP3 -> VLC.Originally posted by blackout23 View PostFlash? Who uses flashplugin?Originally posted by blackout23 View PostJust use Chrome comes with its own flashplayer or install pepper-flash for chromium.Originally posted by blackout23 View PostWho needs hardware acceleration for youtube video?Originally posted by blackout23 View PostEven with the real adobe flashplugin that's unstable a hell if you override the setting in /etc/mms.conf.Originally posted by blackout23 View PostHow is that Arch Linux's fault?Originally posted by blackout23 View PostInstall dropbox etc. That's a pretty poor argument. Of course you can have full working Arch desktops with your favorite apps in 20 minutes.
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